Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture

Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, performance art, food, lowrider culture, theatre, photography, dance, pulp fiction, music, comic books, video games, news, web, and digital media, healing rituals, quinceñeras, and much more.

Features include:

• consideration of differences between pop culture made by and about Latina/os;



• comprehensive and critical analyses of various pop cultural forms;



• concrete and detailed treatments of major primary works from children's television to representations of dia de los muertos;



• new perspectives on the political, social, and historical dynamic of Latina/o pop culture;

Chapters select, summarize, explain, contextualize and assess key critical interpretations, perspectives, developments and debates in Latina/o popular cultural studies. A vitally engaging and informative volume, this compliation of wide-ranging case studies in Latina/o pop culture phenomena encourages scholars and students to view Latina/o pop culture within the broader study of global popular culture.

Contributors: Stacey Alex, Cecilia Aragon, Mary Beltrán, William A. Calvo-Quirós, Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Nicholas Centino, Ben Chappell, Fabio Chee, Osvaldo Cleger, David A. Colón, Marivel T. Danielson, Laura Fernández, Camilla Fojas, Kathryn M. Frank, Enrique García, Christopher González, Rachel González-Martin, Matthew David Goodwin, Ellie D. Hernandez, Jorge Iber, Guisela Latorre, Stephanie Lewthwaite, Richard Alexander Lou, Stacy I. Macías, Desirée Martin, Paloma Martínez-Cruz, Pancho McFarland, Cruz Medina, Isabel Millán, Amelia

About the author

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University where he is also founder and director of LASER and the Humanities & Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute. He is author, co-author, and editor of over 24 books, including the Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature and Latino/a Literature in the Classroom.

Summary

Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, performance art, food, lowrider culture, theatre, p

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Luis Aldama
• Assisted by: Frederick Luis Aldama (Editor), Aldama Frederick Luis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 10.12.2019
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9780367876920
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87692-0
• Pages: 464
• Series: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
• Subjects: Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Modern Family, pop star, pop culture, The Americas, Hispanic & Latino Studies, La Llorona, Grand Theft Auto, Spanish language, irregular migration, Latino studies, Chicano Studies, El Zorro, Vice Versa, Young Man, Latina Studies, santa muerte, El muerto, Chicana studies, narco culture, Feathered Serpent, zoot suit riots, Irregular Migrants, Sleep Dealer, Dusk Till Dawn, Focus User Attention, De Los Muertos, Vatos Locos, greaser cultura, Spanish English Dual Language Programs, California State University East Bay, lowrider cultura, quinceneras, Latina pop culture, Latino pop culture, Los Tigres Del Norte, La Bruja, El Tigre